Public body · FOI
34 posts · 2025–2026
Public authority under FOIA and the EIR. Escalation: Public Services Ombudsman for Wales (PSOW). Court: Administrative Court (judicial review). Correspondence: 34 emails (17 sent, 17 received).
📍 Checked in at: NMR enquiry (service date)
Next step (forecast): answer, 18 Nov 2026
Every option used up (forecast): 27 April 2028
No public statements found yet; the record below involves them.
I accept that archive 6364275 relates to Bonvilston, confirm an order for scans of items 6048945, 6048943 and 6048941, ask for the order form to be resent, and raise three new questions on Cadw records, 1974 survey notes and aerial sortie lists, requesting reply by 18 November 2026.
“Please treat this email as confirmation that we wish to order research-quality scans of archive numbers 6048945, 6048943 and 6048941”
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We ask for a completed order form before quoting on three scans, note the fee waiver for under five research-quality scans, confirm no further information beyond the catalogue, and clarify that archive item 6364275 relates to Great House, Bonvilston, not Llandough.
“the item Archive Number 6364275 from the Emergency Recording Collection has been physically examined and does not relate to Great House Farm, Llandough”
I confirm the requests of 8, 15, 17 and 20 September are now treated as fully answered, and ask you to supply scans of Archives 6048945, 6048943 and 6048941, confirm any accession or provenance record for NPRN 20182, and confirm whether the emergency-recording case is now correctly linked.
“Confirm whether any accession data, transfer note or provenance record exists for the material held under NPRN 20182”
Seen ✓ · answered 13 Oct 2026
I order scans of Archives 6048945, 6048943 and 6048941 relating to Great House Farm, and ask you to confirm whether the order form already supplied remains valid or whether a fresh LES08 form is needed; I am not reopening points already closed under section 21.
“Please confirm the order form already supplied remains valid, or attach a fresh LES08 form”
Seen ✓ · answered 13 Oct 2026
The family acknowledges RCAHMW's further response of 6 October 2026 under RC26-0375, notes the confirmed searches, nil returns and offer of scans for Archive 6048945, and will review and catalogue the outcome before any follow-up.
“I will review the points against the earlier requests and catalogue the outcome”
Seen ✓ · answered 13 Oct 2026
We confirm our searches of registered files and the full NMRW archive, including uncatalogued material, were extensive and found nothing further on Great House Farm, apart from Archive 6048945; aerial photograph searches would incur a charge.
I clarify that my requests were never limited to registered campaign files but cover all recorded information the Commission holds on the site, and I ask you to confirm whether the search has extended across all relevant NMRW collections, listing the categories involved.
“My requests were not confined to registered campaign files.”
Seen ✓ · answered 6 Oct 2026
We have forwarded the preservation notice to our Records Manager and expect to answer the other outstanding enquiries later the same day.
We confirm no letters or records about Great House Farm, Llandough exist in our registered files, and that our archive (NPRN 20182) holds the only relevant material, listed on Coflein; aerial photo searches would involve a charge. We also quote the historic description of the farmhouse from GGAT02038s.
“Great House was the chief freehold farm of the parish”
We acknowledge your freedom-of-information enquiry and confirm we will respond within 20 working days.
“We will respond within 20 working days.”
I welcome Welsh correspondence but prioritise speed, and I make clear this follow-up does not restart or narrow my requests of 8, 15 or 17 September, which remain due 6, 13 and 15 October. I ask you to confirm all three are logged as FOIA/EIR requests with reference numbers.
“Please confirm that all three are logged as FOIA / EIR requests and let me have the reference numbers.”
Seen ✓ · answered 21 Sep 2026
We acknowledge your enquiry and aim to respond within 15 working days, noting our Priority Enquiry Service is currently suspended due to staff shortage, and we point you to the Coflein catalogue or an archive visit.
“we have currently suspended our Priority Enquiry Service due to staff shortage”
I'm asking whether we were consulted, notified, or asked to record Great House Farm, Llandough before its demolition on 6 December 1988, despite Cadw reportedly considering emergency listing days earlier, and request any related correspondence or documentation.
“Whether the Royal Commission received any notification, consultation, referral or request for advice concerning Great House Farm before its demolition in December 1988”
Seen ✓ · answered 17 Sep 2026
We acknowledge your enquiry and aim to respond within 15 working days, noting our Priority Enquiry Service is currently suspended due to staff shortage, and we suggest using the Coflein catalogue or visiting our search room.
“we have currently suspended our Priority Enquiry Service due to staff shortage”
I'm asking the cataloguing team to check whether Emergency Recording case RCS2/1/1777, currently listed as Great House (Ty Mawr), Bonvilston, actually relates to the demolished Great House Farm, Llandough (NPRN 20182), and to relink it if so.
“Could you confirm from the location plan / map copies / photographs in the RCS2/1/1777 bundle whether the site is Bonvilston”
Seen ✓ · answered 16 Sep 2026
We confirm receipt of your request and will respond within twenty working days.
“We will respond to your enquiry within twenty working days.”
I'm requesting under FOI/EIR all RCAHMW records on the 1988 Suggett report and related survey material concerning medieval ironwork found under the rear wing of Great House Farm, Llandough.
Seen ✓ · answered 8 Sep 2026
I sent a short thank-you note in Welsh and English acknowledging the reply.
Seen ✓ · answered 8 Sep 2026
We acknowledge your report and apologise for the delay, and have forwarded it to our Online Services team who will assess whether any amendments to our records are needed.
“forwarded the information to our Online Services team who will look into the matter and make any amendments to our records that they consider necessary”
I congratulated RCAHMW on its aerial discoveries and set out the history of Great House Farm, arguing that a separate freehold for the farmhouse was obscured through litigation and missing deeds, noting the 1987 Court of Appeal case never ruled on title and that the Land Registry bundle remains inaccessible after an FOI refusal.
“it did not rule on whether the Williams family held a separate freehold to the farmhouse plot”
Seen ✓ · answered 14 Aug 2026
We supplied available accession details for three archives, noted a possible 'Mrs Buckler' source on record 6048942 and a mention of lost 1986/87 correspondence on record 6048945, and said fuller content can be viewed in our Search Room.
“Correspondence between C.N. Johns and Mrs Buckler, Great House Farm, has been lost since 1986/87”
I explained my grandmother used the Williams name, not Buckler, after 1935 and asked how to correct or annotate this on RCAHMW's records, while also raising that the 1975/1983 conveyances wrongly merged the farmhouse with leased farmland despite ownership never being ruled on.
“Ownership was never ruled on. BP sought possession and never gained a ruling on ownership.”
Seen ✓ · answered 10 Jun 2026
I sent a message containing only the quoted prior correspondence, with no new content added.
Seen ✓ · answered 10 Jun 2026
I thanked RCAHMW for the archive listings and requested detailed cataloguing information for all fourteen records, including creators, provenance, formats and whether they reference ownership, the family, surveys or related material held elsewhere.
“I would be grateful if you could provide, for each of the fourteen archive records, any information held”
Seen ✓ · answered 10 Jun 2026
We provided a link to the full list of archives held for the site and explained that clicking each red Archive Number opens the catalogue entry with titles, dates and descriptions, though some items lack full data.
“This will include information such as titles, dates, and descriptions, albeit we may not have information such as dates for all items”
We are out of the office until 8 June 2026 and will reply to emails on our return; urgent matters can be sent to an alternative address.
“I am away from the office until 8 June 2026. I will answer e-mails on my return.”
I asked for the full archive list for the 14 cited files, with titles, dates and descriptions, covering ownership, occupiers, estate history, photographs before demolition, farm buildings, oral history and pre-development surveys.
“the full archive list with titles, dates and descriptions if you don't already have it”
Seen ✓ · answered 5 Jun 2026
We are away from the office until 2 June 2026 and will answer emails on our return; urgent matters should be sent to the alternative address given.
“I am away from the office until 2 June 2026”
I voiced deep anger over what happened to my family, questioned why local officials have stayed silent, and said this year's new suspicions mean the case should be reopened.
“I am horrified that the MP and Councillor for Llandough are remaining silent”
Seen ✓ · answered 29 May 2026
We repeated the details of the 14 archives on Great House Farm, provided an electronic copy of Archive Number 6524751, and confirmed we hold no correspondence related to the site.
“we do not hold any correspondence related to the site”
We acknowledged your latest enquiry and said we would respond within 20 working days, again sharing links to Coflein, the search room and licensing information.
“Byddwn yn ymateb cyn pen 20 diwrnod gwaith”
We confirmed we hold 14 archives on Great House Farm, Llandough, gave the Coflein link and search room details, and noted microfiche scans cost £20 each and are subject to copyright limits.
“We hold 14 archives related to the site, a list of which can be seen here”
I thanked you for your prompt and detailed response to our enquiry about Great House Farm.
“Thanks for your prompt and detailed response. Most diligent of you.”
Seen ✓ · answered 26 Nov 2025
We acknowledged your enquiry and said we would aim to reply within 15 working days, pointing you to Coflein, our search room, and image licensing information in the meantime.
“Byddwn yn ceisio ymateb cyn pen 15 diwrnod gwaith”
